"That is such a nonsensical, and stupid, and dangerous,
approach," the Vermont senator told CNN's
Wolf Blitzer. "It's almost indescribable."

The Clean Power Plan, negotiated by the Environmental Protection
Agency under the Obama Administration, was designed to put strict
limits on carbon emissions from power plants.

Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday —
surrounded by coal miners and fossil fuel executives — to
direct Scott Pruitt, the new EPA administrator, to begin the
process of scrapping the regulations. The fossil fuel industry
has long maintained that the regulations have caused job losses
and profit contractions throughout the energy industry.

Sanders rejected that notion, and didn't hold any punches.

"While Trump and his friends may think climate change is a hoax,
scientists are telling us it is real, it is caused by human
activity, and it is already causing devastating problems,"
Sanders said.

"You have the absurdity of Exxon, the largest oil company in
America, telling the president he should not withdraw from the
Paris agreement," Sanders said.

Exxon sent a letter to the White House on March 22, urging Trump
to keep the agreement, which seeks to limit global carbon
emissions. Exxon said the US was "well-positioned to compete"
under the terms of the agreement,
reports CNN.

"This is very dangerous, because if the United States does not
lead the world in transforming our energy system, I worry very
very much about the nation and the world that our kids and our
grandchildren will be living in," he added.

Sanders said he will try to do "everything he can do" to reverse
Trump's executive order.

"I think you are seeing states all over this country, cities all
over this country, understand how dangerous and absurd his ideas
and his actions are, and they're going to go forward trying to
combat climate change," Sanders said.